Word: picketer
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...been who last pitched in the majors in 1991 agreed to become baseball's first "prominent" strikebreaker. Former Boston Red Sox righthander "Oil Can" Boyd, who threw five games for the Class A Sioux City Explorers last year before injuring his shoulder, said he would cross the picket lines in a bid to return to the Show: "If this is what it takes, then I'm going...
...nothing wackier than this bombshell from the Major League Cabal: Oil Can Boyd is back as the first major-league scab, after crossing the picket line to sign with the White Sox organization...
...came to picket today is that the impression is being created that education is going on and that everything is terrific," said Cathy M. Larkin, an art teacher. "They're using the Harvard name to imply that high quality education is going...
...would-be picketer said he is glad Harvard is not associated with the professors who have crossed the picket lines...
Workers in a General Motors auto parts plant in Flint, Michigan went on strike this morning, after making no progress in a 25-hour negotiating session that lasted all night Tuesday. More than 6,800 union workers took to the picket lines, calling for GM to reduce overtime and hire more permanent employees.TIME Detroit bureau chief Bill McWhirterdescribes the latest walkout as a "virtual replay" of last October's strike at another Flint plant, when GM reluctantly gave in to the strikers' demands for a staff increase. McWhirter says that GM's current hard stance is surprising. "By giving...